Remove Update Reminder

Version: 1.2
Works with: 2.5 – 3.0.1

A simple plugin that will remove the

“WordPress 3.0.2 is available! Please update now”

message from the WordPress admin for all user levels below Administrator level (ie. anyone who cannot upgrade plugins). If you use WordPress and have other users, perhaps clients, logging in, you don’t want to alarm them with the update message, so this removes it from their view.

Hi Matt, glad you like the plugin 🙂 It’s not been updated as it’s not needed to be. It should be fine on WP 2.9.X, I’ve not heard otherwise. Unfortunately I can’t check on any site at the moment as I’ve upgraded all the ones we maintain to the latest version so there’s no reminder to hide! If you check it on one and let me know if it doesn’t do the job and I’ll look into what’s changed for you, but I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Thank God! I had a client that tried to update WP all by herself, resulting in the site crashing (she doesn’t even know what a database is). Luckily I had a back-up mock from a different domain, but it took a while to get it and all the customized PHP work I did back. I mean, didn’t the warning messages mean anything to her?

Now I put this in place (and will continue for all my clients) so they won’t mess anything up.

I am looking to extend this to work on Administrators and I see in the comment above: “changing the user level value in the code from 10 to 11” I do not see that in the plugin file? Am I missing something? Thanks a bunch!!

Hi Ashley, the plugin has long since been updated to use capabilities rather than user levels. If you don’t want it to display for Administrators just take the if statement out so that the CSS is used for everyone, however it’s not something I would recommend as Administrators should know when an update is available, and if the admin is the owner/client of the site then I really wouldn’t give them admin access anyway.

I would recommend using a plugin like the the Memebers Plugin, Role Scoper, etc to create a new rule for the client without giving them too much access. This would allow you to decide what the client needs access too and what they don’t

Hi Kyle, Unfortunately a number of sites on our server came under DDOS attacks including this site and so I had to move the site over to go via cloudflare.com to help give an additional level of security, otherwise the site would be offline constantly. I’m hoping to remove the cloudflare protection soon, however we have had to make numerous security upgrades and put protection in place to ensure the stability of the server. I hope you can appreciate that we have to put our clients first.

The extra block page (I assume asking for a security check) is simply there due to the IP that you are connecting from, which is most likely within a range of IPs that are known to cloudflare as typical spambots or more serious.